IMDEA Networks
Dr. Vahid GHAFOURI
Post-Doc Researcher at University of Oxford. United Kingdom
- Graduation date: Mar 2025
- Affiliation: IMDEA Networks Institute, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (U3CM)
- BSc: Industrial Engineering - Sharif University. Tehran, Iran
- MSc: Business Analytics - Sabanci University. Istanbul, Turkey
- PhD: Telematics - University Carlos III of Madrid. Madrid, Spain
- Ph.D. Thesis: Utilizing Textual Embeddings to Measure Online Polarization
- Ph.D. Supervisor: Dr. Guillermo SUAREZ-TANGIL
- Joining date: June 2021
- Leaving date: February 2025
- Email: vahid.ghafouri@imdea.org
Publications
NLP-Driven Approaches to Measuring Online Polarization and Radicalization (PhD)
Vahid Ghafouri
pp. 214 , March 2025
I love pineapple on pizza != I hate pineapple on pizza: Stance-Aware Sentence Transformers for Opinion Mining
Vahid Ghafouri, Jose Such, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Miami, Florida. November 2024
Transformer-Based Quantification of the Echo Chamber Effect in Online Communities
Vahid Ghafouri, Faisal Alatawi, Mansooreh Karami, Jose Such, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. San Jose, Costa Rica. November 2024
Differences in the Toxic Language of Cross-Platform Communities
Ashwini Kumar Singh, Vahid Ghafouri, Jose Such, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Buffalo, New York, USA. June 2024
AI in the Gray: Exploring Moderation Policies in Dialogic Large Language Models vs. Human Answers in Controversial Topics
Vahid Ghafouri, Vibhor Agarwal, Yong Zhang, Nishanth Sastry, Jose Such, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Birmingham, UK. October 2023